Rumors of an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X3D emerge, telling of a new 6C/12T gaming champ with 96MB of cache.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-5-5600x3d-rumor-foretells-of-a-budget-am4-gaming-champ
The Seagate Lightsaber FireCuda SSD is a dressed-up version of the FireCuda 530, which is not a bad thing for fans of Star Wars or relatively fast drives. It’s a specialized product for those who like to show off their builds.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/seagate-lightsaber-firecuda-ssd-review
Repair technician and YouTuber Louis Rossmann exposes cases of Gigabyte GeForce RTX 30-series and RTX 40-series graphics cards suffering from PCB cracking.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gigabyte-rtx-30-rtx-40-series-gpu-pcbs-are-reportedly-cracking
A TikToker has gone to the extreme and modified a Steam Deck handheld to use a full-blown 240MM AIO CPU cooler. The thermal results are very good unsurprisingly, dropping temps by 32%.
Apple's M2 Ultra cannot beat Intel's Core i9-13900K, thrashed by AMD's Threadripper Pro and Intel's Xeon W9.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-m2-ultra-geekbenched
The US CHIPS Act, the measure that oversees the distribution of around $280 billion in funding for semiconductor-related pursuits, may not have as secure a funding guarantee as previously thought.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/us-chips-act-funding-questioned
GDDR6 prices have dropped substantially over the past 18 months. Spot prices are now a quarter of what they were at the height of the crypto mining boom.
Sasa Marinkovic, senior director of gaming marketing at AMD, compares the Radeon RX 7600 to the GeForce RTX 3060 8GB. Yes, that's the universally panned 8GB card and not the far more popular 12GB model.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-pushes-flawed-comparison-to-trash-rtx-3060-8gb
AWS uses PyTorch with DeepSpeed to train large language models with Intel Habana Gaudi-based DL1 EC2 instances.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/aws-uses-intel-habana-gaudi-for-llvm
The MSI Spatium M450 1TB SSD is marked down to $37 at Newegg, down from its usual price of $59.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/msi-spatium-m450-1tb-ssd-now-37